RUSSIAN CHAIRMAN FOR
THE LEAGUE?
Litvinoff Mentioned As
ณ
Likely Candidate
(Special to "Hong Kong
Dally ›Press")
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Tele graphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, September 17, 7.80 p.m.)
Geneva, Sept. 17.
CLEARING OFFICES
be placed before the League of Nations by the French Minister of Commerce, the idea being countries which already operate
the
that
·HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1934.
M. Litvinoff, the League's next.
chairman?
clearing agreements could SOVIET AND THE
A proposal for the appointment of a commission to examine and Establishing a system of multi- lateral clearings and improve the By strange succession of coin-working of the clearing offices will cidences there seems every likeli- hood that the next session of the League of Nations from January to May, 1935, will take place under the chairmanship of the Russian delegate, Litvinoff, This arises because it is the custom for each country in alphabetical order to provide the chairman for the session. This session was presided over by Benes, the "delegate for
French government circles Czechoslovakia, this name being convinced that the system is like- spelt in French "Tchecoslovaquie." ly to be extended throughout the begins with T while Soviet Russla world and remain in force long is officially known as "Union Re-enough to warrant an organised publiques Socialistes Sovietiques," International effort begins with U hence next in suc- cession.
easily exchange views on their experiences and therefore reduce the various difficultles which the system encounters, according the Financial news,
to
are
towards its perfection. No enthusiasm, how- ever, is shown. Rather the feel- ing is that it is the best machinery devisable in the absence of any possibility of a return to free
SPAIN PASSES
Geneva, Sept. 17.
The vote on the motion about the re-eligiblity of election to the Council, submitted by Spain, was passed by forty-four countries out of fifty-four-
No Ritch Expected The League of Nations began on Monday moming with the formali- ties associated with the adult-exchange.—Reuter, tance of the new member to the League. Part of the proceedings was in public and part in private. The Swiss Foreign Minister, Motta and the Portuguese Foreign Minis- ter, Lladvance, reasoned why their Governments had instructed them -to vote against the admittance of Soviet Russia. The decisive vote of the League takes place Tuesday when two-thirds of the members must definitely declare for Soviet Russia's entry. After
Geneva, Sept. 17. that a simple majority must vote
Chile, Spain and Turkey have for the allottment
Russia been elected to the Council. The Di 3 permanent seat on the voting was as follows:-Chile Afty- League Council, No hitch two, Spain fifty-one, and Turkey is expected in elther
case. forty-eight.— Trunaocean Kuo Min.
Reuter.
to
on
Transocean Kuo Min.
THREE PASS
CHINA INELIGIBLE FOR
LEAGUE COUNCIL
Only Secures Twenty- one Votes
Geneva, Sept. 17.
China only obtained twenty-..
one votes out of fifty-two for election to the Council and
is
therefore ineligible. This clears the way for the election of Turkey, -Reuter
THE LEAGUE'S LOSS
Geneva, Sept. 17: "It is the League's loss, not China's," said Mr. Quo Tai Chi, commenting on the vote of the Assembly which he held indicated that the League was becoming steadily more European. He said that many countries which had promised to vote for China failed to keep their word especially among the South Americans. Reuter
J
THREE NEW MEMBERS
Geneva, Sept. 17,
It is now certain that Turkey. Spain and Chile will be elected to the Council at this afternoon's assembly meeting Reuter.
CHINA NEWS
LEAGUE
Great 'Relief Felt
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright.)]
Paris, Sept. 16.
CLAIM AGAINST ALL ABOARD!
MELLON
The Treasury Explains
Washington, Sept. 17. The Treasury's claim against Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of State of the Treasury of thier million dollars includes one mil, lion as a fifty per cent. penalty of alleged fraud. Mellon contands be lost 8 million on the sales of stock but the Government argues that the sales were fictitious and not in good faith.-Reuter.
And Ready For
The Race
PRINCESS MARINA IN
ENGLAND
Loudly Cheered On Way
To Balmoral
London, Sept. 17. pipes skirled. A large crowd Cheered by enthusiastic crowds cheered lustily as the Royal can at the various stopping places en
drove off towards Balmoral Castle... route, Prince George, Princess-Reuter.
Balmoral Castle this morning and were warmly welcomed at Balmor- al later by the Duke and Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth.
New York, Sept. 17. There is a steady fall of rain and the weather is warmer than it was on Saturday büt all the same unpleasant. It is difficult to forecast whether the yachts wil race to-day but It seems most likellest since the Endeavour 13 already bent on a heavy main- sall and it is generally expected Marina and her parents arrived at that the decision whether to race or not is dependent on Sopwith.
The race will be approximately The quarrel between
Andrew over the same course as Satür- Mellon and the U.S. Treasury was day's race since that was ruled renewed during the week-end, "no contest," although the de- when the Government filed claims cision will be dependent on the against Mellon amounting to over | wind. $6,000,000. The Tax Appeal Board
The Rainbow is now an odds- will hear the case..
051 favourite although the En- Mr. Mellon declared that the deavour is confident of a walk Treasury's position was astound-away win ΟΤΟΣ the Rainbow. Ing. They were intending to try Sopwith, profiting from Saturday's before a Civil tribunal an issue experience has fitted on a special which had been settled by a winch to handle the Genoa jib.. Grand Jury at Pittsburgh
Sopwith has sent down a diver to May. He asserted that the allega inspect the keel, fearing that it tions had been made to save the was damaged by a string lobster- Treasury's face,
pot but it was found to be in perfect condition-Reuter.
It will be recalled that in May of this year, the Department of Justice began investigations of charges that Mellon had evaded payment of income tax totalling several million dollars on a stock transaction and that, while Secre- tary of the Treasury, he had made legal refunds of £22 000.000 to shipping Companies...
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, Sept. 17. London Silver prices to-day were 1/16 down for "Spot" and un- changed forward, as follow:-
Apart from few newspapers which babitually support Bar- thou's polley through thick and thin, the French Press shows no great enthusiasm for the entry of Russia into the League of Na tions. The diplomatic correspond- ent of "Qeuvre" states that in the League of Nations Secretariat, great relief is felt that the aim in view has been accomplished be- cause" a last minute fallure under existing circumstances would have been fatal to the League which had already received, age- vere blow from Poland which had threatened to leave the League in the coming six months. over, says "Oeuvre," the Swiss are also seething with anger and talk- ing earnestly about a plebiscite on the question of her withdrawsi from the League of Nationa.
The semi-oficial "Petit Parisien" | Saturday. writes that if the three great Po- wers, France, England and Italy had not stood together and acted as one, It is doubtful whether So- viet Russia would have been ac- cepted.
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More-
JENNY LIND'S LETTERS
Bequeathed To Wife Of Rear-Admiral Villiers
Sept. 15 Sept. 17 Spot 21-13/16 21-3/4. Forward.21-13/16 21-13/16 London on New York cross rate at 2 p.m., to-day was 5.00-13/16) compared with 5.01 at closing on
DIAMOND GANG
Extensive Smuggling Alleged
Extensive
Dairen Sept. 17. diamond smuggling
from Dairen to Kobe is revealed
די
HEAVIER MAINSAIL
New Port, Sept. 17.
The Duke of York shook hands with Princess Marina, the Duchess kissed her while Princess Elizabeth excitedly danced round till Princess Marina stooped and kissed her.
The Royal guard of the Argyll and Sutherland. Highlanders turn-
Large crowdy welcomed "Prin- cess Marina wherever she came in England to-day.
When she arrived from Faris in the afternoon, accompanied by her parents, 5,000 persons were gather- ed at the Folkestone pier to greet her. They cheered and shouted. a. welcome to England.
Extra police. were summoned to deal with a crowd of 10,000 inside and outside Victoria Station.
Prince George waited on the
ed out as an unusual guard of platform as the train pulled in.-- honour and presented arms as the Heuter.
ARCHDUKE OTTO A SATISFACTORY
Arrives in Antwerp
(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press")
ANSWER
To Be Given To Nanking
The wind is freshening and ex- perts predict an eighteen knot (By - Telegraph, Copyright, Tele breeze with the sea choppy and graphic Mesages Urdinance. 1801. will be unpleasant for bad sailors. | Received, September 17, 7:30 p.m.).
The course will be the same as
Brussels, Sept. 17. Saturday windward 'and leeward.
Archduke Otto von Hapsburg The Endeavour is not fitted with arrived in Antwerp by the steam- a special winch for the Genoa Jiber "Brabant" from Oslo on Mon-portation of 72 Chinese to China.
after all. It is thought due to heary weather expected for which the Endeavour has a heavier mainsell than on Saturday.- Reuter.
THE START
Newport, Sept. 17. The race started at noon after
day afternoon. Ex-Kaiserine Zita met Otta on the wharf whereupon mother and son proceeded to Stenockerlzeer Transocean Kuo Min.
HAPSBURG FAVOURED
Vienna, Sept. 17.
A memorial service for the Aus-
Tokyo, Sept. 16. A Foreign Oficer spokesman has declared that Japan will shortly be sending, satisfactory reply to Nanking note regarding the de-
He forecasted the possibility of an extension of Article IX of the Portsmouth Treaty, prohibiting Russia and Japan from maintain- ing armed froces in the vicinity of the Korean-Siberian border to the Manchurian-Siberian border, and also the formation of a mix- ed commission to deal with all frontier matters, including inci- dents.
a delay of a quarter of an hour.trian national heroes, was held on There was a light south-easterly Sunday at Elsenstadt. the capital wind an a jumpy 'sea.-
of Burgenland, and ended with a Reuter. Reuter,
demonstration in favour of the Hapsburg, and
Archduke Eugen appeared for the first time in pub-
lie as the official representive of OFF TO KULING
TEXTILE STRIKE the House of Hapsburg, bringing
to the municipality of Eisenstadt. a letter of thanks from Otto.
Speeches by the Mayor and other
Attempt To Reopen prominent persons rendering hom
Mills
New York, Sept. 16. Attempts to break the American
the
The Two Presidents To Confer
Nanking, Sept. 17. President Wang Ching Wel and Mr. Sun Fo left for Kuling at 9.45 am by plane.
Interviewed, President Wang and
age to the Hapsburgs, followed, Finally, a motion was carried de- manding the revoking of the laws against the Hapsburgs and arrange that the mortal remains of with the announcement that textile strike and reopen the mills last Emperor, Karl, be laid to rest Sanya Kondo a Dairenite left for of the Southern States under the in the Imperial vault at Vlennu. Mr. Sun said they will Japan on Sept. 16, under custody protection of armed troops, will be Transocean Kuo Min. “ (Special Air Mail Service) of a Kobe Customs Officer who made to-night by mill-owners.
unravelled the plot,
and London, Aug. 31.
of further the prospects Several others, session opened the chairman of
including aviolence disturbs the centres con- An ivory box containing letters Frenchman, are under arrest," scerned. the meeting Sandler, proposed, written by Jenny Lind, the Swedish being alleged that over 650 thou- that a motion concerning the ad-ightingale is among the bequests sand yens' worth of diamonds have been
XI
MOTION LOST
Geneva, Sept. 17.
When the League of Nations
Four thousand militia men have mustered for strike service
in different parts of Georgia.
In North and South Carolina, 2,000 National Guardsmen are
SOYA BEANS IN ENGLAND ready to escort strike-breakers to
mittance of Soviet Russia to the Wilson, Queenbury Place, South hee smuggled.---
left by Mr. Alexander Hayman League be taken on Monday af-Kensington, London, who was for Reuter, ternoon. After this had been many years the leading solfeltor in adopted without discussion, the the Indian litigation meeting dealt with the motions Mr. Wilson, who died on June Fifty-three countries voted on 23 last, left the ivory box contain- China's, motion, fifty-two being ing letters from Jenny Lind to ha valid and one invalid. Twenty-aunt; the rose petala given to bis one. countries were. favour aunt by Jenny. Lind; And the but as the motion required two-statuette of Jenny Lind by Count third majority, namely thirty-four Dorsay, to Annie Villiers. votes, the motion was lost. Transocean Kuo Min.
IN NANKING
A friend of the late Mr. Wilson told a reporter yesterday that Mr.. Wilson's aunt and the famous singer were friends.
ho
(Special to "Hong Kong
Daily Press") (B Telegraph, Copyright, Tele graphic Massages Ordinance," 189). Received, September 17. 7:30 p.m.)
London, Sept. 17. For the first time in the history of English agriculture, soya bean ripened in England. This success farm and largely facilitated by was achieved on an experimental
the exceptionally warm summer.
work.
At Birmingham, Alabama, . two negroes were killed and several
in which 2,000 men fought with others were injured in labour riots
police
The sheriff of the county has
of B. M. Miller to send troops at sent an urgent request to Govern-
once. "The riot grew out of coal mine wages dispute.
SILK INDUSTRY
Meanwhile, in New York, labour
"
THE NIGHTS OF SILENCE
New Motor Re- gulations
(Special to "Hong Kong. Daily Press"). (by'. Telegraph, Copyright, Tela
Received, September 17, 7.50 p.m.) raphic Messages Ordinance,
1894
London, Sep. 17.
constitutional Chiang.
Sun Fo is
"
discuss problems with
expected to retum here by air on Thursday in order attend a meeting of the Legisla- tive Fuan on Friday morning-- Reuter.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Are Told To Behave
(Special to “Hong Kong
· Daily Presa").
Nanking Sept. 17. News of China's failure at Gene- Mr. Wilson's possession, and he The letters eventually came into
The prohibition of sounding of (By Relegraph, Copyright, Tals va caused the keenest disappoint-thought it best to dispose of them
motor horns during the night now graphio Massager Ordinance, 1894. ment here. President Wang Ching in this way. The letters," Wel who is at present in Kuling said, "are just chatty notes from made for putting a large area un-textile manufacturers' proposal to extended to all England from discipline
in existence in London and cer- Receiped, September 17, 7.30 p.m.) Neverthelesa, plenk are being leaders have rejected the silk | zain other large cities, has been
A law for the maintainance of was immediately informed but up one woman to another. They have der soya bean next year. till now he has made no state-
among "high school been bequeathed to Mrs. Villiers,""
silk factorý workers that the de- Bunday to Monday,
students was published in the off- ment.-
the wife of Bear-Admiral Villiers." Transocean Kio Min.
cision for a sympathetic
strike Horns may only be sounded | Cisl. "Wiener Zeitung ” on Món...... Reuter,
should be submitted to the N.R.A from now onwards an open high-day. The law prescribes serious for arbitration. It appears that ways. In all districts where there penalties for the violation of the the silk industry, too, will, suter are a considerable number of bye-laws against participation by from the textile workers' walk-out dwelling houses severe penalties students in any from in all party and that nothing can prevent the will be imposed for sounding horns and political activity and for further spread of the strike.—
between the hours of 11.30 p.m., fomenting disturbance in high Reuter.
and seven in the morning--
schools. Transocean Kuo Min.
Transocean Kuo Mín.
Flood in Changy BRIEF
Tientsin, Sept. 3.
In view of the shallowness of the Hai Ho (River), due to the ac- cumulation of allt, it is learnt that the Provincial River Rebabilitation Engineering Bureau WE start Alarming "flood reports having dredging operations immediately again been received from the Dis-in order, to facilitate navigation. trict Magistrate of Changyuan It is also learnt that a loan will be" southern Hopel; the Yellow River secured for the conservancy work. Flood Relief Commission has def cided to call a meeting here devise rellef measures. General
to
Vu Esueh Chung, Chairman o1|WINDSOR LAD SCRATCHES
the Hopel Provincial Government, and the various Provincial Depart mental Commissioners are expect.
London, Sept. 17
Windsor Lad to-day scratched from
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ATTACK ON STANDARD OIL PREMISES
Strange Incident" In
Mukden
Pelping, Sept. 17..
Advices from Mukden report a strange incident
Baturday
ed to be present at the meeting.
all engagements for 1994 which in morning during the local celebra Mr. Lin Cheng Belu Provincial clude the Oadby Breeders Plate, tions in connection with the an- Commissioner of Reconstruction, John Porter Stakes, Great Foal niversary of the signing of the who returned here yesterday from Stakes, Jockey Club Stakes, New Protocol Several Japanese carry- from an inspection trip to the market St. Leger and the Chaming a shrine attacked the Mukden affected districts in the southern pion Stakes.
Keuter,
office of the Standard On Co., and part of the province, will submit a
used heavy poles on which the rebort at the meeting.
shrine was mounted to hatter the
A STUDY DELEGATION
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
"Press" (Copyright:)]
Cologne, Sept. 17.
A Chinese study delegation from the Natonal Government of Nanking visited here on Friday front door of the office, smashing and Saturday, The group con- the lock and shattering glass,"
sisted of eighteen persons who Japanese police officers in the stayed in the Hotel Excelsior, and vicinity at the time of the incident spent Friday Inspecting the great appear to have attempted to Industrial works near Cologne...... thwart the attack but full details are still lacking.
От
Baturday they made a
May they steamer tour along the Rhine to authorities are understood to have heights of Petersberg, they
The Loop Japanese Consular Neuwied After a banquet on the
instructed the police to make the irned zon Saturday fittest inquiries. Reuter.
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